Abstract

Australian multi-award-winning novelist Thea Astley was a great writer in promoting feminism and ecofeminism in her later years’ writing. This paper analyzes her fourth Miles Franklin award novel — Drylands from the perspective of ecofeminism. From analysis, it draws a conclusion that Astley makes a lot of efforts to raise readers’ awareness that her women characters’ liberation depends on their economic independence but it will be a hard and long way to achieve the final emancipation of women and total equality between women and men.

Details

Title
Ecofeminism in Thea Astley’s Drylands
Author
Zhang, Xiuqing
Pages
42-45
Section
Articles
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Australian International Academic Centre PTY. Ltd (AIAC)
e-ISSN
22034714
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2451277594
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.